Bench-drawer.



BEVERLY L. WATERS, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

` BENCH-DRAWER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 10, 1908.

Application 1ed February 2, 1907. Serial No. 355,508.

To all whom 'it may concern: i

Be it known that I, BEVERLY L. WATERS, a citizen of they United States, residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented a certain 'new and useful Improvement in Bench-Drawers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to drawers and supports therefor, especially such drawers as are designed for use on shop benches, factory or office shelves and in other locations where the drawer is -attached after the making of the furniture on which it is to be used. 'In fitting up stores, factories and oflices it is frequently desirable to attachy a drawer in a place where no provision has previously'been made. In such cases it is rather difficult to secure the necessary guideways to the article of furniture with proper accuracy and permanence. It is hard to place the guideways properly and to fasten them with sufficient rigidity so that they will not become displaced.

The object of my invention is to provide permanent and non binding and readily attachable means for mounting a drawer upon a bench, table or shelf.

I accomplish my obj ect by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view showing the drawer and support upon a bench or shelf. Fig. 2 is a transverse view of the drawer and sup orting plate. Fig. 3 is a perspective view o the supporting plate. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section of the upper edge of the drawer showing the. preferred manner of formingthe guide flange.

" Similar numerals referf to similar throughout the several views. I A

. The drawer 5 consists preferably of' sheet metal and is provided at its lateral edges with flanges 6. In the preferred form these flanges or slides are integral with the body of the drawer and are formed in the manner best shown in Fig 4, the horizontal portion of the guide consisting of two thicknesses 6a and 6b and there being a depending portion 6c which is adjacent to the outer surface of the side 5a of the drawer.

AThe means for sup orting the drawer consists of a plate 7 -of s eet metal having suitable perforations 7? through which screws may enter to secure the late to the under side of the bench or she f. At the lateral edges said plate has parallel side guides 8 lparts 'which are formed by bending the edges of the plate downward and inward as best shown in e Figs. 2 and 3. The advantage in forming drawer slides thus from a single sheet of metal is that the slides are held at the roper distance apart and are not4 affected eit er by inaccuracies of workmanship on the part of the carpenter or cabinet maker rior are they susceptlble to atmospheric changes. Another advantage is that the plate itself forms a smooth-and continuous surface along which the upper edges of the drawer may slide.

Extending upwardly from the front ofthe plate is a flange or face plate 9 which is designed to lie against thefront edge of the bench or shelf to afford additional means of securing the plate thereto. Flange 9 has perforations 9a through which screws may pass for securing the plate in position as indicated in Fig. 1. Extending downwardly from the rear end of the plate is a flange 10 which forms a stop for limiting the distance through which the drawer may travel. VThe drawer stop 10 performs an additional function in that it prevents a tampering with the contents of the drawer by preventing the entrance of a prying tool between the rear end of the drawer and the under side of plate 7. The flanges 9 and`10 perform still another function 1n stiffening the plate 7 and holding it perfectly flat, .thus maintaining thelguides 8 alwaysin proper position so that the drawer will slide freely butwithout excessive lateral play. The slides 6 stiffen the drawer along 'the sides; and in order to obtain the same stiening effect at thefro'nt and rear ends of the drawer it is desirable'to bend the edges over and form the folds 5bat the front and rear. As a resultl of this construction the upper edges of the drawer are very stiff and rigid and the drawer may be made in very large sizes without internal or external braces. If a drawer lock 11 is desired it may be attachedto the front of the drawer; and to n accommodate the boltof such lock it is usual to punch a bolt hole 7b in plate 7 just behind the front lplate or flange `9. may be secured to the drawer in any convenient location for example on the bottom or front as illustrated in Fig. 1.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent is:

A drawer-pull 12 v sisting of sheeJ metai and having lateral lIn witness whereof, I have hereunto subslides of double thicknessformed integral scribed my name in the presence of two witwith said drawer7 said drawer having also a nesses. portion 6 inte el'with and depending from BEVERLY L. WATERS. 5 said slide and ying adjacent to the drawer Witnesses:

sides for stiening the seme, substantially as HOWARD M. COX,

described. '0. J CHRISTOFFEL. 

